University of Waterloo Tour 2008

This year’s unofficial University of Waterloo tour coincided with UW’s own Open House event, and took place on Tuesday, March 11th. Which just happened to be on the same date as the last year’s tour. This was my 3rd year organizing and hosting such campus orientations, and it was the best yet.

More people came out [...]

My workstation setup

Some people were wondering about my computer workstation setup, so here it is! This is the place where I take large amounts of caffeine and convert it into large amounts of Ruby code for GigPark.com.

The entire setup runs off my shiny MacBook — 2 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB RAM. And yes, that’s [...]

The silliest reason to get a MacBook

My consulting work, as a Web Developer, sometimes requires cross-browser development. It’s an annoyance to find common ground between different CSS implementations in different browsers. Though I hear JavaScript is worse. So while working at the office, we had a machine dedicated to testing with IE. Now that I’m back at the University of Waterloo, [...]